Dynamic includes

Anon

Okay, I have a personal site that I am working on to help me learn PHP (just to get that out of the way). In this site, I have a simple design set up, and I include the top portion of the site (top.php), the left column of the body (left.php), and the right column of the boyd (right.php).

The problem I have is this:

In the middle column of the body of my index page, I have a table which contains 3 rows and one column (this is the part I need included). The three table inside of the mian table, which contains the 3 rows and one column is labeled "about_me.php".

In the top row, I want a title displayed for the page the user is viewing (it is part of another the "about_me.php" page so I can enter that manually no problem). In the second row is the content of the page which is in HTML format. In the third row, I have included my copyright notices ("footer.php").

How would I make it so that when the user clicks on say "My Family" from the left body column, the page loads "my_family.php" into the main table?

I know this probably doesn't look very understandable and its quite garbled, but if you need to see the actual code for the pages, I would be more than happy to post links to the code in .txt format.

mrmufin

I think I understand what you're saying... if I'm way off target, just show me the code.

Your page might look something like this:

<?php
include("top.php");
include("left.php");
include("about_me.php");
include("footer.php");
?>

When it could look something like this:

<?php
/ Get the basename of the page requested, and determine
both the title and the 'dynamic' incldue while be:
/
switch(basename(FILE)) {
case "about_me.php":
$title = "All About Me";
$content = "about.php";
break;
case "my_family.php":
$title = "My Family";
$content = "family.php";
break;
default:
$title = "Welcome to my website";
$content = "default.php";
}

include("top.php");
include("left.php");
// load the dynamic include:
include($content);
include("right.php");
include("footer.php");

I use this approach (or things similar) in about 90% of the stuff that I code. It let's me focus on generating just the 'dynamic' components individually.

If I'm way off base, send/post the source, we'll take it from there.

Have fun...

linuxn00b

<?php

/ Get the basename of the page requested, and determine
both the title and the 'dynamic' incldue while be:
/
switch(basename(FILE)) {
case "about":
$page = "about.php";
break;
case "family":
$page = "family.php";
break;
case "hobbies":
$page = "hobbies.php";
break;
case "resume":
$page = "resume.php";
break;
default:
$page = "about.php";
}

<head>
<title>Shawn Seeley's Site</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="text.css" type="text/css">
</head>

==============

Thats the coding for index.php

Here is left.php where I want the links menu to be:

==============

<table width="150" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#000000">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#336699" align="center" valign="middle" class="smallerTitle">-
Site Links -</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#FFCC00" align="left" valign="top" class="regularYellow">
<ul>
<li class="regular_Orange"><a href="index.php?page=about">About
Me</a></li>
<li class="regular_Orange"><a href="index.php?page=family">My Family</a></li>
<li class="regular_Orange"><a href="index.php?page=hobbies">Hobbies</a></li>
<li class="regular_Orange"><a href="index.php?page=resume">Resume</a></li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

=============

I only get the defualt page to come up, and none of the others will show...but when i change the default, the page changes, but none of the links will change the included pages. Help?

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bump?